An aged oil-painting plate showing rows of small pinned ledger cards beside a hand-lettered index card, with one red arrow pointing from an index entry to the matching card.

Jack Zines

Plate II: What a Database Index Does

Date
September 20, 2026
Edition
1 of 1Robinhood Chain

A naturalist's answer to a modern question: how do you find one card without opening every drawer? The plate shows the whole unsorted table of pinned ledger cards beside a small hand-lettered index that points straight to the card you want. One arrow in faded red does all the work.